Protein nitrogen appearance in CAPD patients: what is the best formula?
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Protein nitrogen appearance in CAPD patients: what is the best formula?
BACKGROUND The protein equivalent of nitrogen appearance is an indirect index commonly used to assess dietary protein intake in patients on CAPD. Moreover it has been suggested that the ratio between nitrogen appearance and dietary nitrogen intake (fractional urea synthesis) can predict nitrogen balance in uraemic patients. Several formulae to directly calculate the protein equivalent of nitrog...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/11.8.1592